I don't think it models intelligence; but maybe it models wisdom. The prediction part requires intelligence.
I can understand physicists getting excited over a simple mathematical model that explain a lot. Like Einstein thinking relativity was so beautiful, it must be true. But a difference there was unexplained empirical data (speed of light constant in all directions) - which we don't have for intelligence.
That is, it's not that we haven't solved the problem of intelligence; but that we don't understand the question. (sometimes dna seems terribly wise).
I can understand physicists getting excited over a simple mathematical model that explain a lot. Like Einstein thinking relativity was so beautiful, it must be true. But a difference there was unexplained empirical data (speed of light constant in all directions) - which we don't have for intelligence.
That is, it's not that we haven't solved the problem of intelligence; but that we don't understand the question. (sometimes dna seems terribly wise).